An extensive view of Market Bosworth Hall, Leicestershire

Market Bosworth Hall in Leicestershire is one of the unsung great houses of the late 17th Century, built by Sir Beaumont Dixie between 1682 and his death in 1692 in a sumptuous Anglo-Dutch Anglo-French style. When published by J. Throsby in 1791 (Views in Leicestershire) it had already been 'gentrified' in a Georgian style, but was to be much altered and ornamented in the 19th Century, particularly by Tollemache Scott in the 1880s. The artist has taken a stance on the tower of the church of St Peter sited to the west of the house and thus out of the picture.